Pandemic Preparedness: The Need for a Public Health - Not a Law Enforcement/National Security - Approach, American Civil Liberties Union, January 14, 2008 . Read the full...
A French court Monday froze bank accounts belonging to several Russian state organizations including the Central Bank of Russia, the Russian Finance Ministry , the presidential administration's foreign property arm, the Russian...
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied without comment a petition for certiorari filed in Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs v. von Eschenbach (07-444) , a case challenging...
A report issued Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) criticized efforts by the Bush administration to prepare for a potential bird flu pandemic by relying on a law enforcement/national security approach...
New International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz does not plan to amend his predecessor's tough stance on Serbian cooperation, Reuters reported an ICTY spokeswoman as saying Monday....
French prosecutors Monday urged a criminal court in Creteil, a suburb of Paris, to convert the sentences of six French aid workers convicted and sentenced in Chad for their role in the attempted airlift of 103 supposed...
A former defense lawyer for German Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison Monday after being convicted of incitement and insulting the court during Zundel's original trial in 2005. Throughout Zundel's...
The European Commission (EC) Monday announced formal investigations into two new allegations that Microsoft has abused its dominant market position regarding a range of Internet and operating system software. The EC will...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the US military have installed a video teleconferencing system at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan to allow detainees held at the base to speak with loved ones,...
Lawyers and activists from 38 Asian Pacific countries meeting Monday at the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Environmental Justice and Enforcement in Bangkok, Thailand, criticized lax enforcement of environmental laws throughout Asia, saying that governments have ignored enforcement...